The dominant #mobility narrative of the 20th century cannot respond to the great challenges of the 21st century.
We urgently need to identify, nurture, and empower alternative mobility narratives.
#transport#urban#planning#liikenne#policy
https://t.co/78LM3kJmNx
Ever see a bus lane and thought it looked empty? Think again! Each bus lane can move more people per minute faster than a typical lane for cars.
💡 Learn more at https://t.co/DCfO88F37H
Attention Street Design Nerds! One of the most intriguing cities in recent years at reconsidering streets for people instead of just for cars, Oslo Norway, has translated their Street Design Manual into English and put it on-line. Worth digging into. #Oslo
https://t.co/z6VdiksYLO
📢New paper out CEUS! We investigate spatial #accessibility and #transport#equity at national level in Finland! 😊 The work was lead by the brilliant @MPonkanen and in great collaboration with @MilosPlanner! 👏 Openly available at https://t.co/fXZesXNEEJ #GIScience
Very important line here from @LouHaigh on road safety:
"We treat road safety in a way as if it is somehow a natural accident. If the number of people being killed or seriously injured on our roads, were being killed in any other way, we'd be treating it as a pandemic."
The new Paris limited traffic zone will restrict transiting vehicle traffic in the city center (with key exceptions) with expectations of decreasing traffic volumes & noise and improving air quality. https://t.co/GiRzluvOan
44 scientists have issued a stark warning about the threat of a major ocean circulation change, causing a detrimental disruption of climate patterns lasting for centuries to come.
Check out this short video explaining what this is all about.
"Among other sectors, the scientific community must move beyond its comfort zone of writing papers and preaching to its own choirs. It must engage with the public and policymakers to turn knowledge into action. Will we have yet another opportunity?"
https://t.co/c6GZrSDmjS
For all those concerned with low natality rate in #Finland...
"road traffic noise was associated with a higher risk of an infertility diagnosis in women older than 35 years, and potentially in men older than 37 years"
#liikenne#Transportation
https://t.co/OjEGkxSmWO
Differentiated (capabilities + opportunities + motivations)
-- > Behavior
Public transport price is a small piece of behavioral change.
The most important transport policy is fair car use pricing and land use (built environment) policy.
https://t.co/Zami7WSH0M